Grimsby child sex offender jailed
The 40-year-old groomed two young girls into engaging in sexual activity and sending explicit images
A 40-year-old man from Grimsby who groomed two young girls has been jailed for a number of child sex offences.
Suleman Baig has been sentenced to nine-years-and-nine-months in prison.
He pleaded guilty on day two of his trial to:
- Three counts of sexual activity with a child
- Two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity
- Two counts of paying for sexual services of a child
- Two counts of sexual communications with a child
- Two counts of doing an act intending to pervert the course of justice
- Attempting to pay for the sexual services of a child
- Sexual assault
- Making indecent photographs of children
- Possession of prohibited images of children
He was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life and handed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention order.
Leading the investigation Philip Shrimpton from our Protecting Vulnerable People unit said: “I would like to start by commending the bravery of both young girls for reporting the abuse Baig had subjected them to.
“I would also like to thank the many witnesses and friends of the victims who came forward and were willing to stand in court to give statements.
“Baig was a practising criminal solicitor and yet still committed such abhorrent crimes against these girls.
“It has been a lengthy, and complex investigation, but it is thanks to their courage that he is being held accountable for his despicable sexual deviancy.
“Baig is a manipulative sexual predator who groomed two girls for his own sexual gratification and attempted to pressure them to deny this to the police.
“Whilst he continued to deny all these allegations up until day two of the trial, making the girls and their families go through all the court proceedings, I am glad he is now behind bars and prevented from causing further harm to others.
“We always treat cases of this nature with the utmost seriousness and sensitivity and would encourage anyone who has been a victim of recent or non-recent sexual abuse, or anyone who believes someone they know is suffering at the hands of a man like Baig, to please tell someone."